Norwegian man identifies as disabled woman

[Waiting4baby2]

Just saw this - apparently he was given a sympathetic interview but it sparked backlash from disabled people (rightly so, wtf??!!!)
reduxx.info/norwegian-man-now-identifies-as-a-disabled-woman-uses-wheelchair-almost-full-time/
I have heard about people identifying as animals, children, another ethnicity to their own, now disabled… why has identifying as the opposite sex become socially acceptable but not these other identities? Surely it is equally as offensive/ bizarre?
If you believe that self ID is fine for men to ‘become women’ and vice versa doesn’t it follow you think you can self ID as anything? If everyone is simply whatever they say they are, why is the line drawn at ‘gender’?

Chloe is also transgender. Previously known as Clive.

Ha ha serves me right for not reading the whole thread. I see this person's already been discussed. I stand corrected :)

First do no harm eh.

These men never approach other men to change their dirty nappies do they

I honestly don’t know how I’d react to seeing an adult man dressed in a nappy and bonnet carrying out his fetish in a children’s play park. I thought I’d already peaked but that would just about finish me tbh.

I think a normal reaction to that would be to call the police. It's menacing.

Some experts believe it is caused by a neurological fault, in which the brain's mapping system cannot see a certain body part.

For some people this may be the case but it ought to be treatable to reintegrate it. There's a book I listened to called "Livewired" by David Eagleman which talks about some of the science around how our brains process sensory inputs and how this changes if one of those inputs stops providing data, and how our brains can adapt to process the data from other sources or even novel sensory inputs - you'll have heard of blind people whose hearing processing is more advanced than average. But it can go beyond this into technological adaptions for disabilities.

He also talks about how our brains have a model of our bodies from the sensory information coming from them - how we extend this model for riding bikes, driving etc and how amputees are effected by the loss of data from the missing limb/s. Similar effects that can be simulated by providing false/unexpected biofeedback.

If someone has the feeling that a limb they do have doesn't belong to them, there are likely exercises one could do to reintegrate that biological feedback back into the brain's model of the body. Assuming of course that they wanted to live with the reality of the body they have rather romanticise the disassociation and identity of disability.

I found the book really fascinating.

Think this person needs some serious therapy. There is nothing fun about disability. I'd be more than happy to give them mine.

It reminds me of being little and pretending we were in wheelchairs, shuffling about on school chairs! It's like this, but given free rein.

Quite. As for being stunning and brave and oh look at me conquering mountains with my disability...

fuck the fuck off.

If I could swan about in a chair without the exhaustion and chronic pain and attendant internal fuck ups and medication and having to plan extensive escape routes that don't include just getting out of the chair and walking away if it all gets a bit tricky then -

well frankly, I'd do a hell of a lot of things I currently can't, but posing up mountains with photographers stroking my ego wouldn't be on the list.

I will do everything to stay out of a wheelchair. Have mine.

I came straight here from the Herald to see if there was a thread about this. This is so fucking predictable, soon "normal", boring cis people will be so rare we'll be the new "special" I can't wait.

www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/23101806.issue-day-able-bodied-norwegian-identifies-disabled-woman/

@nilsmousehammer quite agree. This has really irritated me (along with the way they've treated their poor wife). 🙄🙄